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termined by this present Ordinance, or to modify or alter 

 them after sentence has been pronounced, under pain of 

 repetition of the former penalty against them, and of 

 suspension from their charge for the first time, and 

 deprivation on repetition. 



' 15. There shall not be made a gift, remission, or re- 

 duction on any account whatever of fines, restitutions, 

 damages, and compensation for loss, before they have been 

 awarded or thereafter for any person, be he who he may. 

 We forbid the sending of letters or memorials in regard to 

 this; and to Parliaments and Chanceries and their Registrars 

 to register or give any heed to such; and to Grand-Masters 

 and Officers of Maitries to give effect to them, under pain 

 of deprivation of their charges, and of their being made 

 responsible in their persons and in their own names. 



' 16. The fines of our timber forests, coppice woods, and 

 of woods held in Grurie, Grairie, Tiers et Danger, and co- 

 proprietorship, pastures, and pannage, warrens, waters, and 

 rivers, cannot be farmed nor sold under any pretext what- 

 ever, and if they be found comprised in any bargain, lease, 

 or auction sale, we declare such to be null and void ; we 

 will that they be levied to our profit, with the restitutions, 

 confiscations, and other penalties appertaining to us, by the 

 Sergeant-Collectors of Maitrise*, and be by them paid to 

 the .Receivers, as is ordered by these presents. 



4 17. The tines which shall be imposed by our Commis- 

 sioners and Officers, in reformation or otherwise, at the 

 instance of our Attorneys-General or their substitutes, for 

 depredations, abuses, usurpations, surcharges, excess in 

 measurements, and contraventions in waters and forests of 

 ecclesiastics and communities, and in those which are held 

 by Grurie, Grairie, or otherwise, shall belong to us without 

 exception or difference, and the lists shall be put into and 

 left in the hands of the Sergeant-Col lectors of each Maitrise 

 to make recovery of them and account for them as, and 

 under the same terms and penalties as for, the fines 

 adjudged for our waters and forests. 



' 18. The fines and penalties for the omissions and 



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